Pokémon
A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team!
TV Flash files “A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team!” as hour 755 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 16, episode 2, aired 2013-02-09, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E02: listed hour 755 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 2 of 45 in season 16. It aired 2013-02-09 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige!” (S16E01). Next is “A Village Homecoming!” (S16E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
On the way to the Unova League, Ash & Co. are ambushed by two trainers who challenge Ash & Cilan to a tag battle. With Braviary and Drilbur against Unfezant and Pansage, things get a bit tense. After the battle, Cilan takes everyone fishing so that the trainers can battle across Earth, Sky and Ocean. Will Ash & Cilan win the battle and will they be able to help the trainers cover all possible avenues of battle?
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S16E02 is listed hour 755 of 1220 — hour 2 of 45 in season 16, season 16 episode 2.
When did Pokémon S16E02 air?
A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team! aired 2013-02-09 and is listed at 22 minutes.
Do I need the games first?
The TV series is one engine with the games and cards, not a homework prerequisite. U.S. breakthrough is 1998 anime syndication as childhood OS.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, and a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Anime lands in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards — catch, train, argue about types. Kids’ TV as collection ritual, gym-badge serialization, and the rare cartoon that still prints money because the adventure never quite finishes.
The work, first: a young trainer, a yellow mouse, a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Based on Game Freak/Nintendo games, the anime's U.S. TV breakthrough in 1998 (Kids' WB and syndication) detonated a multi-platform kids' empire: games, cards, films, toys, one engine. Satoshi Tajiri and Kunihiko Yuyama's world turned anime into mainstream American children's programming. Rica Matsumoto and Veronica Taylor as Ash across languages; Ikue Otani's Pikachu. Catch, train, argue about…
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- Rica Matsumoto as Ash Ketchum (JP)
Rica Matsumoto voices Ash Ketchum on Pokémon — the ten-year-old whose globetrotting checklist became a childhood operating system in Japanese, then a syndication engine abroad. Catch, train, argue about types. TV Flash files her as 1990s…
- Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum (US early)
Veronica Taylor was early U.S. Ash Ketchum on Pokémon — a ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Anime landed in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards:…
- Ikue Otani as Pikachu
Ikue Otani voiced Pikachu as a childhood operating system — a ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, anime landing in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards. Catch, train, argue about types. TV Flash files her as 1990s kids-TV…